Generation of a complete set of additive shape-invariant potentials from an Euler equation

Jonathan Bougie1, Asim Gangopadhyaya, Jeffry V Mallow

  • 1Loyola University Chicago, Department of Physics, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA. jbougie@luc.edu

Physical Review Letters
|January 15, 2011
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